These cookies, including those from third parties, are used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform. For example, some of these cookies enable visitors to specify language, product or other platform preferences. Their overall purpose, however, is to enhance visitors’ experience and enjoyment of this Platform. These cookies serve a variety of purposes related to the presentation, performance and functionality of this Platform. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible. These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Our Platform uses various types of cookies, each of which has a specific function. Movement: Modified Valjoux 7750, automaticįunctions: Time, chronograph, canteen crown It's the evidence a potential customer needs to feel assured that the watch that's caught their attention has been crafted with confidence. It's the kind of attention to detail that lends trust to a watchmaker, an investment of effort that goes beyond simply casing up a movement and shipping it out. Then there is the introduction of little original touches like the exposed case bolts-all exquisitely polished-the asymmetrical sandwich dial, the pill-shaped chronograph reset pusher-there are even exotic materials available like bronze, and soon, forged carbon fibre. There are no sharp, unfinished edges here, and not a simplistic, CNC-milled shape to be seen. Polished lips meet brushed edges, curves blend into angles the detailing is far beyond the usual U-Boat measure, and it's impressive to say the least.

Where prior U-Boat watches had an undeniable simplicity in their construction, the U-51 is complex, intricate and dare I say it, elegant. Granted, at 46mm the Chimera is no shrinking violet, but its dimensions are much more appeasing to a wearer of traditional sized timepieces.īut its not just the dimensions that have changed, oh no-it's much more than that. Like Panerai before it, U-Boat are moving away from the historically accurate, yet generally impractical dinner plate-sized cases and are dipping into the realms of comfort and sensibility instead. Big, diverse and attention grabbing, it laughs in subtlety's face, but things are taking a different turn. This left it to Italo to see his grandfather's idea through to reality.Ī U-Boat watch has always been a divider of opinions.

Much like Panerai, the original watch (penned by U-Boat founder Italo Fontana's grandfather, Ilvo) was developed for the Italian Navy, but where Panerai's watch engaged in active service, Ilvo's didn't the Italians had already surrendered before the watch saw any action. Naming a watch brand after a war machine from the most infamous global power the world has ever seen is always going to be a touchy subject, but there's more to it than just shock value. Well now that concept has come of age and U-Boat has the confidence in it to do something special. Like many young upstarts, they had a concept-an Italian wartime submariner's watch-but they didn't have, for want of a better word, confidence. It doesn't seem all too long ago that U-Boat was just a fledgling brand, offering a uniquely styled yet simple case with a basic quartz movement in it.

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